Remember, they could have easily negotiated license terms that wouldn’t have had this outcome for people who already paid. They chose not to. This wasn’t forced on them unexpectedly.

Louis Rossmann made a video about this (again): https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/sony-stole-what-you-purchased-again:a

Why anyone still does this dumb shit is beyond me.

I still have an ancient ass 4-bay Drobo with four 6TB hard drives full of content nobody will ever take from me.

Sony can suck a nut.

Ouff. If my 15 TB seeding server wasn't already full, I'd seed all of them, but at least I'm seeding some of them...

Setup your environment and grab what you can. 😊

Freaking knew it wouldn't be long before they tried their ring of theft again.

And they wonder why I don't buy digital movies or shows lol.

I hope they do more of that, their customers fully deserve it

If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing

I truly feel sorry for everyone affected but it's also important to draw firm conclusions from this happening to oneself.

I've had this happen to me once, bought myself an Album on Amazon Music, back then the Amazon Music App was rather unusable so I just downloaded the MP3, years later I wanted to redownload some of the "worse" songs from this album I had deleted/lost over the years. Gone, the entire thing gone. Still there in my purchase history, unavailable anywhere else. Best part: the album itself was still on Amazon so I could have bought it again.

I drew my conclusion: Never buy with DRM. Always download the files, even if I don't need them.

Sony pulled Linux from the PS3.

They've also pulled similar stuff on phones and other gadgets.

They lost my trust and I won't buy anything from them again.

Thanks to Sony for showing us why digital piracy is necessary and justified.

I don't even sail the high seas these days, but objectively it's the morally right thing to do. They're straight-up stealing from people and giving them nothing in return. So please pirate anything and everything Sony!

How can a company even legally give you a "license to view something" like that without advertising it as "until we randomly decide to take it down. It shouldn't be legal. They should have to say what the contract is for all the things they sell licenses for.

Buy Blu-ray's and DVD's.

"From September 1, 2026, due to our content licensing agreements, you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal, and it will be removed from your video library.

Fuck Thank you,

PlayStation Store"

Fixed it for you.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

Didn't they do this once before several years ago? Or maybe that was Amazon. In any case, if you don't own what you pay for, then taking it without paying can't be wrong.

I have a friend that works in the film industry. He's real talented, and has trouble finding work. So sometimes I feel a pang of regret, pirating stuff. Then I see bullshit like this, and it helps me know that I'm doing the right thing. When technofascists get so mad about people being against them, that they turn the internet off, I'll be sitting pretty with my external hard drive stuffed to the brim with all sorts of awesome stuff to watch.

If i buy digitial i should reserve the right to download and retain that item in a digital format

I wasn't planning on torrenting those movies but I think I'll do it now out of spite.

Sony being Sony since at least the 80s

SONY, FUCKING SONY!

-Floss

Til Sony had a movie store.

Not surprised. They did this with their other movie app a few years ago, the one that allowed you to download a free digital version of DVDs when you bought the DVD back when streaming was new.

No they didn't. You just need to download an app called qbittorrent, click the search tab, type the movie name then double click the one at the top with the highest number of 'seeders'. Shortly thereafter the movie will be safely on your computer.

Here is the excellent itemised history of the nonsense seen, during the introduction of streaming media:

https://lemmy.ml/post/49320624

Everyone should request a refund